David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To lighten up the mood from my last post, this is how I've spent the majority of my free time the past 3 years 😄
We're in the middle of Langstrecke season (last weekend in Solothurn achterrennen.solothurner-ruderclub.ch ) and will be heading to the internationally famous Baselhead in mid-November 🤞💪

Alex Buerkle also just wrote me that idea, I will give it a shot!

Thanks Alex, worth a shot at least! Will do that right now 🤞

I was told after the fact that I was supposed to use something called ChronosHub to pay for publications. Yet when I found out about this in 2025, they told me they no longer pay for publications as of 1.1.2025.
Don't know what options others have used, maybe they were just better informed than me.

Purging due to self-fertilization does not prevent accumulation of expansion load Author summary The geographic space that species occupy, i.e., the species range, is known to fluctuate over time due to changing environmental conditions. Since the most recent glaciation, many speci...

Feel free to read our lovely publications, so I can at least feel better for having to now pay for them myself!!

(though really hoping some of you out there might have some useful leads for help!!)

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and

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And the second of these publications was directly related to a week-long machine learning course I took to better understand the topic we were working on. Yet I was also told this course fee was not eligible to be covered by my grant and owe this back as well.

Several things frustrate me here - the SNSF is credited on these pubs as supporting our research. Yet now want me to pay for this privately, knowing that I have left academia, do not have research funds to pay this, & that I *never* had research funds to pay this as Ambiziones only have their grant.

I guess I was oblivious, but when the secretary and finances office of the uni took my fees willingly to be paid by my grant, I never thought anything was wrong.

I have tried OA funds from the uni and a few other options and so far no one can pay retrospectively :(

As a first-time (junior) PI on a grant, it was the first time ever having to pay for my publications. And having never been informed that a grant from the SNSF could not cover these costs, I only found out upon receipt of my financial report after the grant had ended.

Apparently I made the mistake of using my SNSF grant money to pay for publications from my Ambizione grant in 2023 and 2024.
Does anyone know of possible solutions for retrospective funding to save me from paying 6800 CHF out of my pocket to the SNSF to cover fees paid to journals in 2023 and 2024?

Using runs of homozygosity and machine learning to disentangle sources of inbreeding and infer self-fertilization rates Abstract. Runs of homozygosity (ROHs) are indicative of elevated homozygosity and inbreeding due to mating of closely related individuals. Self-fertilizati

Great work by Leo Zeitler for his second PhD chapter! If you want to learn about ROHs, machine learning, and distentangling selfing from demography, check it out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
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Oh cool! That would also work well, the Acela goes from Boston in the direction I want! I will email you about it when my plans get a little firmer to see if it's still a possibility.

Is anyone I know planning to attend #evol2024 and then planning to drive back to the US on the 31 July? I'd love to carpool/help pay gas. Can go to Burlington VT, NYC, or even as far Philadelphia or NJ depending on where you are going! Any big transit station also works :)

Took a first step into machine learning, with Leo Zeitler, using ROHs and random forests to understand and infer sources of inbreeding from selfing versus demography. Happy to hear any thoughts and feedback!

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…registration for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology is open! We hope that you will join us! #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social